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Provenance

Susan Macdowell Eakins [Mrs. Thomas Eakins, 1851-1938], Philadelphia; Millicent Rogers [1902-1953], New York; her son, Count Peter A. Salm, New York;[1] sold 29 April 1983 through (Lothar Dohna, New York) to Mr. and Mrs. H. John Heinz III, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; gift 1991 to NGA.

[1] Mrs. Rogers died in 1953. In her will there is no mention of the painting among the effects bequeathed by her to her son, Peter Salm.

Exhibition History

1905
Tenth Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1905, no. 67.
1907
Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings, American Art Society of Philadlephia, The Haseltine Art Galleries, Philadelphia, 1907, no. 1.
1912
One hundredth and seventh Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1912, no. 201.
1939
Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Eakins, Kleemann Galleries, New York, 1939, no. 11.
1944
A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1944, no. 76.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 274-275, color repro.
1993
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and the Heart of American Life, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1993-1994, no. 45, repro.

Bibliography

1907
American Art Society. Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings. Exh. cat. Haseltine Art Galleries, Philadelphia, 1907: repro. 1.
1930
Goodrich, Lloyd. "Thomas Eakins, Realist." Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 25 (March 1930): 30, no. 273.
1944
A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins 1844-1944. Exh. cat. M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1944: repro. 76.
1946
McHenry, Margaret. Thomas Eakins, Who Painted. Privately printed for the author, Oreland, Pennsylvania, 1946: 117-119.
1974
Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York, 1974: 255-256, repro. 256.
1982
Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982: 2:208-211, repro. 209.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 274-275, color repro.
1993
Wilmerding, John, et al. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and the Heart of American Life. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1993: 166-167, repro. 167.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 182-185, color repro.

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